Heartwarming / Becky Lynch

• She started off on NXT doing her generic Irish lady shtick, eventually retooling into a moshpit Genki Girl and moving her way up to Sasha Banks's lackey. She soon gained more confidence and broke away from Sasha, winning the No. 1 contender shot for the NXT Women's Championship. Lynch lost the title match, but she put in one of the best women's performances in NXT history and looked strong in defeat. As Becky sat in the ring clutching her arm and reduced to tears, the crowd promptly showed their appreciation, chanting her name and singing her theme song before it was cued up again to play Becky out of the ring, giving her the biggest boost of her career even though she lost.
• Irish wrestler Katey Harvey claims that as a teenager, she personally met Becky at a show and was given a flyer for the school (but was too afraid to try it out). Years later when Becky returned to wrestling, the two got to work together just before she was signed to WWE.
• Her interview after winning the Smackdown's Women Championship where she immediately thanks the crowd for their support throughout the years and how every cheer, and every sign means the absolute world towards her.
• Then her other interview after that win, in which she's walking through the backstage area with only the interviewer/cameraman around, still in total awe that she's actually the champion, recounting her journey, and even declaring she's going to bed with the title as her pillow. She woke up the next day with a big W on her face.
• Then we have the two men who trained her to start her wrestling career, Fergal Devitt and Paul Tracey, posting the picture of them watching her victory with smiling thumbs up. Up the Irish!
  • Becky has expressed her thanks to her mentors a lot when asked. During the "Who is Finn Bálor?" segments before Devitt/Bálor's match against Kevin Owens in Japan, she openly tears up while talking about how much he has helped her become the wrestler she is today.
• August 21, 2018, Becky had to explain her post-match attack of Charlotte Flair two nights earlier at SummerSlam. When she attempted to solidify the attack as a Face–Heel Turn, she was met with this:
  Becky: You guys, you act like you're with me, but were you the whole time?
  Crowd: YES!
  • Granted, she recomposed and continued with the promo to make the case that their support was lukewarm anyway as per the script, but still. The pop clearly had her visibly shaken for a moment and she had to fight it to keep going. Furthermore, because of that pop combined with social media fans and reviewers tearing apart WWE creative for trying to force the overwhelming favorite into the heel box, that whole sequence got edited out of WWE's official YouTube post of the promo.
  • In general, the fact that fans refused to turn on Becky so much that they basically retconned her into a tweener or an antihero instead of a heel.
• November 13th, 2018: After leading the charge on Raw the previous night and beating the shit out of Ronda Rousey, even after getting punched in the face so hard she got a legit concussion, Becky comes back to SmackDown and gets a hero's welcome from not just the fans, but the entire women's locker room, solidifying her as a face once again.
  • On that note, Becky's entire story post-Face–Heel Turn. Despite the company's lack of faith and their best efforts (particularly those of Vince McMahon himself, who is notoriously stubborn when it comes to pushing fan favorites over his own favorites) to try and present her as a villain and somebody unworthy of support and adoration, Becky persevered with the continued unfailing love of her fans and managed to win the respect of the entire WWE through sheer undying moxie and badassery, all culminating in the company turning her face again and finally bestowing her the hero's mantle she deserved all along.
  • After choosing her former best friend/current Arch-Enemy Charlotte Flair to take her place in the match, the two women share a handshake...and then a hug, showing that despite everything that's happened between them over the years, deep down, they're still best friends.
  • Two weeks later, Becky had fully recovered and the fans cheered loudly for her the moment her entrance is played.
• Despite her new cocky attitude and her response towards her two days after TLC 2018, Becky had full respect towards Asuka for winning the SmackDown Women's Championship from her and tweeted おめでとう(Congratulations) to her.
• When given an ultimatum to apologize to Triple H for her recent actions, Becky had a heart-to-heart talk with her former trainer, Finn Bálor, one of the few times Becky dropped her cockiness since August of the previous year. As Bálor told her to put down her pride and apologize to Triple H, Becky humbly accepted his advice and later that night on Raw, actually does what she was told.
• During an autograph signing, Becky immediately rushed to the aid of a fan who suffered a seizure whilst standing in line and provided assistance until the EMTs arrived.
• When Maria Kanellis announced that she was pregnant during a mixed tag match to stop Becky from taking a swing at her, Becky immediately backed off without even questioning it.
• TLC 2019 features a Tag Team Championship between Becky and Charlotte Flair against champions Asuka and Kairi Sane. Not long after the match went underway, Kairi was legitimately injured (concussion) and Becky was the first person in the ring to notice this. Becky then proceeded to go out of her way to protect Kairi throughout the match, ultimately rolling her under the ring when it's obvious Kairi couldn't soldier on with the pain anymore.
  • Among the wrestlers who would later congratulate Becky on her pregnancy, Kairi was one of them, saying on Twitter that she would "never forget the kindness" she displayed for her, referring to that incident.
• A year after first going public with her relationship (almost to the day), the May 11th, 2020 episode of Raw saw Becky announce that she would be relinquishing her Raw Women's Championship to whoever became Ms. Money in the Bank that year — which turned out to be Asuka — because she was expecting her first child.
  Becky: You go and be a warrior, 'cause I'm gonna go be a mother.
  • Asuka's reaction was nothing short but precious — both her adorkable freak-out to getting the championship and her genuine joy upon realizing Becky's pregnant, to which Becky starts crying. The genuine, non-kayfabe love she has for her as a friend is undeniable. Everyone backstage joins in and congratulates her as well.
  • Before her big reveals, Becky tells Asuka upfront that she is not only her most Worthy Opponent, but the greatest wrestler in the world.
  • The segment ends with Becky, in tears, telling a camera — and by extension the whole WWE Universe — "I'm gonna miss you guys."
• Becky announcing the birth of her baby girl.
• After winning the main event of Raw on August 28, 2023, Becky sits down and holds her armband which bears the name of the recently deceased Bray Wyatt. As Raw goes off the air, Becky shares a story about Bray with the fans and how Bray offers to help her to prepare for her Tables match with Alexa Bliss back in 2016. Becky then says "this one is for Windham" before leaving the arena.
  • During the main event of No Mercy, Becky would enter with a shirt emblazoned with the people she's fighting for. One of the names? Bray.
• In her book, Becky recounts returning to the locker room after her infamous Squash Match against Bianca Belair at SummerSlam 2021, only to find the latter absolutely heartbroken that her career momentum may have just tanked, made worse by the revelation that Bianca didn't even know what was going to happen until that same night, and Becky's hands were tied on the matter. Becky's reaction to this was to go up to Bianca and promise her that she'll get her moment back. And at WrestleMania, she made good on that promise. Bianca has had the utmost respect for Becky ever since.

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